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Top Ten Pro AV stories of the week
What Happened This Week: most popular stories September 18-22
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Practical Power
Without electricity there’s no AV. And anyone who’s been doing this for a while has seen the steady increase of power cords and power supplies in racks, consoles, credenzas,...
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Ford F-150 Lightning production triples after six week shutdown
Revamps made to the plant include new equipment, dramatically increased capacity, and 1,200 new workers.
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David Pogue talks about his experience on the Titan submersible
As the world hopes for a successful rescue of five people aboard the missing OceanGate Titan, the recent passenger speaks up
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Video Format Basics
Today we swim in a world awash with video formats; so many frame sizes, frame rates, data rates, file sizes, compression algorithms. Terminology gets used and repurposed so much...
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Ford reverses decision to axe AM radio from the 2024 Mustang
Move made less than a year after the FCC commissioner moved to preserve AM
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KVM Direct Connect and Networked Systems eBook Available Now
In this eBook we look at some direct connect and networked systems, new products and principles of KVM. Also a field review of the Adder DDX KVM Matrix switch....
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Google Drive springs maximum file limit on customers without saying a word
The unannounced change has left some users locked out
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Disney layoffs begin this week, in what is to be the first of three rounds, according to CEO Bob Iger’s memo
Layoffs are part of broad initiative to cut $5.5 billion in costs.
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Man sentenced to three years in prison for illegally streaming major league sports, extortion
“Instead of quitting while he was ahead, he allegedly decided to continue the game by extorting one of the leagues, threatening to expose the very vulnerability he used to...
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Vinyl records outsell CDs for the first time in over 30 years
Sales of physical music as a whole have continued to grow year over year
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In the United States, thousands scammed out of cash by AI mimicking loved one’s voices
The elderly are frequently targeted, and potential victims are cautioned to authenticate the caller's identity outside of a voice call
Audio
Analog Audio Interfacing
You can make all the signals digital, but sound is still an analog phenomenon. And sometimes using analog audio equipment, or analog connections, is still the best choice because...
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Skillset: Integrating NDI
My first experience with NDI, NewTek’s software platform for video over IP, was to install the software tools on my office computers and see how it behaved. Very cool,...
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This YouTube video is causing Google Pixel phones to abruptly crash
Over 40 years later, Alien is giving viewers a new kind of scare
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Treasure trove of 45 years of Apple products to be auctioned next month
The collection belonged to late historian Hanspeter Luzi
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Skillset: Sound Management
I have a client with a large executive conference room. The table is around 40ft long and seats 40+ people, each of whom has a push-to-talk table mic. There...
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WATCH: Why the human eye sees a color that doesn’t exist
When we look at a rainbow, we see a full spectrum of light. Every colour we could imagine. Except one – magenta. Where is it? Well, officially magenta doesn’t...
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WATCH: This drum machine makes music from heart scans
The CHD-4 uses the heart scans of four children with heart defects to create soundscapes and raise awareness for congenital heart disease.
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Samsung’s Bixby will soon be able to answer calls with your voice
The feature is currently available in Korea, and should be coming overseas soon
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UPDATE: Microsoft forcing free Teams users to pay up or lose their data
Retirement of Microsoft Teams Free (classic) will occur on April 12
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Bard’s clunky demo and development leads to internal tensions at Google
To add insult to injury, Google's market price dropped around $100 million.
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WATCH: Youtuber spends $14,000 and countless hours building gargantuan keyboard
This fully-functional keyboard brings new meaning to "full-sized."
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Steelcase resurrects the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of home-office furniture
Over 80 years in the making, these classic designs fetch a hefty sum
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Frontier launches symmetrical 5Gbps plan across their fiber network
Less than 2 minutes to download a 100 minute, 8K film sounds pretty impressive
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WATCH: Youtuber gives London’s Knightrider Court signage a cheeky ‘upgrade’
Unfortunately, the upgrade didn't cause the sign to start talking
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Microsoft blames ‘networking configuration issue’ for global service outage
The company says they are monitoring services after implementing a network rollback
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mBeat USB4 14-in-1 Docking Station turns your laptop into a full workstation
When working on a laptop either at home or in the field, we’re naturally limited by the capabilities of our work setup. Now, these limitations can be lifted with...
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FAA’s grounding of all U.S. flights points to vastly outdated technology
The Department of Transportation describes system as "failing vintage hardware."
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LG issues recall for 86 inch Smart TVs over tipping hazard
Over 52,000 TVs are affected
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Microsoft’s VALL-E can reproduce a voice after hearing a 3 second clip
Trained on 60,000 hours of speech, VALL-E at times sounds eerily human
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Watch out Google Pixel 7 owners: your camera glass may spontaneously combust
The issue seems to the result of a manufacturing defect
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Solar cell efficiency record broken once again
The record has been broken for the third time in just over a year as implementation of solar power becomes more of a reality
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Apple is preparing to release more external monitors– with Apple Silicon
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports on upcoming external displays
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German researchers post record-breaking semiconductor speeds using salt water
Using a process that turns water into a circuit switch, unheard of speeds become possible
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Electricity….from wood?
Scientists in Sweden have altered wood's properties to vastly increase the energy transferred as the wood dries.
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Department of Energy announces $2.5 billion loan for battery production
The loan will finance the construction of manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan.
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Stanford has a salty solution to the problem of battery flammability
Stanford has created a new solution to a pressing problem: SAFE
